Comparison of a Classical Rehabilitation Method and a Specific Rehabilitation Method of the Cervical Spine (SATRACE)

March 15, 2024 updated by: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Comparison of a Classical Rehabilitation Method and a Specific Rehabilitation Method of the Cervical Spine to Improve Balance in Elderly Patients

In more than 90% of cases, victims of fall are elderly people over 65. Nearly the third of those people fall at least 1 time by year. The incidence substantially increases for people over 80 and women are at higher risk than men.

The value of balance rehabilitation no longer needs to be demonstrated in Gerontology. Nevertheless, a more specific therapy based on the aged-related cervical problems seems to be essential. Indeed, those problems are numerous (arthrosis-like pains, joint stiffness, muscular contractures…) and often lessen vestibular and/or proprioceptive afferents. The cervical spine is a link between different systems which regulate balance, as the visual, vestibular and cervical systems (muscular, articular afferents…), and this role is key to balance control. Indeed, the cervical spine owns an exceptional function thanks to Ruffinian corpuscles, muscle and neurotendinal spindles.

Many studies point up the importance of the relation between balance, cervical spine and vestibular system, and others between tissue changes and postural adaptations in elderly people. Nevertheless, the take into consideration of all these data and their impacts in rehabilitation has not been reported yet.

This brings us to question the added-value of a cervical mobility management in balance rehabilitation in Gerontology.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

86

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

      • Nice, France, 06000
        • CHU de Nice

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

75 years and older (Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients over 75 hospitalized in rehabilitation department and long-term unit of Cimiez Hospital
  • With MMSE > 20
  • In need of balance rehabilitation
  • Who can stand Bipodal position for >1 minute
  • Who can walk for more than 10 meters without walking aid
  • Having signed an informed consent
  • Affiliated to a health insurance plan

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Motor neurological deficit, specific vestibular pathologies
  • Patient hospitalized for traumatological pathology or who has been hospitalized for traumatological pathology within 3 months
  • Vulnerable people: adults under guardianship, deprived of freedom

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Sham Comparator: control group
the manuel therapy in physiotherapy is classic and not focused on the cervival spine
Experimental: manual therapy cervical spine
the manuel therapy in physiotherapy is focused on the cervival spine

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Percentage decrease of the wobbling surface eyes open on steady ground, on a posturology platform
Time Frame: at 3 weeks
To compare the balance improvement, thanks to a posturology platform, between 2 groups of elderly patients hospitalized for balance disorders, in order to highlight the way of manual therapy in physiotherapy, focused on the cervical spine, can increase these parameters and contribute to lessen the risk of falls in elderly people.
at 3 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sébastien GONFRIER, MD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

December 16, 2016

Primary Completion (Actual)

October 15, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

January 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 15, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 15, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

September 18, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 18, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 15, 2024

Last Verified

March 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2016-A00521-50

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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